“Problems aren’t problems unless they affect me directly” sure seems to be the default position of an awful lot of people these days
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And it’s always just a one-off exception. ‘My child needs a vaccine, but it shouldn’t be forced on anybody.’ ‘My daughter needs an abortion, because reasons, but those people are doing it because they’re godless’
feb 26, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly
feb 26, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
feb 26, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s been that way for years, unfortunately. People don’t give an ish until they have to give an ish. And then they reallllllly give an ish.
feb 26, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Rather it's a problem if they decide it is. Remember, some people would rather deal with a war than a meeting in the office.
feb 26, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
It's what happens when empathy is treated as weakness
feb 26, 2025, 6:03 pm • 77 0 • view
And science is frowned upon as a hoax or long con.
feb 26, 2025, 6:07 pm • 60 0 • view
The problem is the covid vax ruined the reputation of vaccines
feb 26, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Not true. This anti-vax movement started way before Covid. Remember when that stupid ass Dr. said vaccines causes autism? He has retracted it since; however, it’s now the talk track for the ignorant magats.
feb 26, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
We should check with Elon and ask him how many of the millions of Americans over 140 died of COVID. I bet his boy genius DOGE hacks could tell us that... /s
feb 26, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
And no. The idiots that railed against science did that.
feb 26, 2025, 7:10 pm • 6 0 • view
The anti vax movement was going twenty year strong, if not longer. It hit its peak with Covid
feb 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
While I agree these people have existed for a very long time.
feb 26, 2025, 6:51 pm • 2 0 • view
I imagine you sincerely believe this but…the criticisms of the COVID vax were just repeats of the same old anti-vaxxer shit they’d been spewing for decades. Covid just made more people gullible bc they hadn’t been exposed to the BS before.
feb 26, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The real problem is more the death of expertise we are experiencing where people with no background in a particular subject decide that a Google search is the same as the education required to have say, a PhD in climate science or epidemiology. It's bs.
feb 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 49 0 • view
I particularly like how a horse dewormer became a cure for a virus. Spec-frikin'-tacular!
feb 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 6 0 • view
Jein. The anti Vax movement gained momentum in the wake of the covid vaccine, but this has been fomenting for a while... and largely at the hands of a discredited doctor (who still manages to have a following). And RFK Jr has long been spewing this shite.
feb 26, 2025, 6:21 pm • 4 0 • view
That doesn't make any sense. There'd have to be something wrong with covid vaccinations for that.
feb 26, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
O the problem is the anti covid propaganda that demonized the vaccine and the CDC and Dr Fauci. This propaganda came out of Russia then got amplified by right wing media as it fit their anti science and education agenda
feb 26, 2025, 6:58 pm • 13 0 • view
That's the PRO-Covoid propaganda.
feb 26, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
It got amplified by right wing media because right wing media is funded by Russia. Remember Tim Pool and a bunch of other chuds getting outed?
feb 27, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly
feb 27, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
The problem is that the ignorant ruined the reputation of vaccines, aided and manipulated by our current fascist regime.
feb 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 14 0 • view
There is nothing wrong with the Covid vax other than roughly 12 people on social media spreading nonsense about it. RFK jr was the worst culprit, btw
feb 26, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I will "commit the sin of empathy."
feb 26, 2025, 7:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Perfectly said!
feb 26, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view